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Stef Craps 🕊️
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Professor of English Literature at UGent | Memory & trauma studies, ecocriticism & environmental humanities, postcolonial & decolonial theory | How stories help us live with loss & imagine better futures | Born at 335 ppm | He/him/his | www.stefcraps.com
Huge thanks to all our contributors for their thoughtful and innovative work – and special thanks to my co-editors and our editorial assistant Marion De Schepper for making this such a rewarding collaboration. (5/5)
December 17, 2025 at 7:58 PM
This special issue grew out of conversations within the Slow Memory COST Action, whose support we gratefully acknowledge. Almost half of the articles, including the introduction, are Open Access. (4/5)
December 17, 2025 at 7:58 PM
the contributions explore how environmental loss is registered, mediated, and remembered across human and more-than-human scales – from slow violence and deep time to ecological grief, material and aesthetic witnessing, and questions of responsibility and justice. (3/5)
December 17, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The issue brings together scholars and artists working at the intersection of memory studies, the environmental humanities, and museum and media studies to rethink witnessing in the age of climate breakdown. Building on and extending trauma and testimony theory, (2/5)
December 17, 2025 at 7:58 PM
It captures the atmosphere, meaning, and intent of the event far better than words alone ever could. Please watch – and feel free to share. 🌍💔🌱

More info: boekentoren.gent/nl/artikels/... 3/3
Lost
Lost trapt op zondag 30 november het drieluik Lost and Found – Caring for What Is (about to Disappear) af met een rituele optocht van De Krook naar de Boekentoren, gevolgd door een ingetogen performan...
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December 16, 2025 at 2:09 PM
It was a moment of collective reflection, mourning, and care – for lives and worlds already lost, and for those currently under threat.

I'm very glad we now have this exquisite after-movie, created by Muriel Grégoire and narrated by Emilie Hermans and yours truly. 2/3
December 16, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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📰 NRC-selectie: www.stefcraps.com/wp-content/u...
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🦤 Remembrance Day for Lost Species event info: boekentoren.gent/nl/artikels/...
🌹 CJfR: www.climatejusticeforrosa.org (2/2)
November 29, 2025 at 1:43 PM